Publications

Selected Publications

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Peer-reviewed publications (52) · Submitted (4) · Books and book chapters (3) · Conference presentations (28) · Reports and other publications (10)

Bold: Somos-Valenzuela and Lab-MoRH students. * corresponding author; ** graduate student. Also on Google Scholar and ORCID.

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Peer-reviewed publications

2026

Liu, C., Ikeda, K., Dominguez, F., Prein, A. F., Rasmussen, R. M., Zhang, Z., Xue, L., Neale, R. B., Chun, K. P., He, C., Rios-Berrios, R., Reboita, M. S., Huang, Y., Gomes, H. B., Llopart, M., Dudhia, J., Tian, Y., Scaff, L., Varble, A. C., … Gutmann, E. D. (2026). Multi-Decadal Convection Permitting Dynamical Downscaling of Current and Future Climates over South America. Climate Dynamics, 64, 435. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-026-08376-w

Manquehual-Cheuque, F., Cruces-Zárate, Á., Lillo-Saavedra, M., Rivera, D., Fernandez, A., & Somos-Valenzuela, M. (2026). Composite flood generation driven by a warm atmospheric River in a southern Andean basin, Chile. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 66, 103671. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2026.103671

Irarrazaval, I., Somos-Valenzuela, M., Dussaillant, I., Lizama, E., Morales, B., Egli, P. E., & Reid, B. (2026). Shifts in glacier dynamics during land-to-lake terminus transition in western Patagonia . Journal of Glaciology. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2026.10144

Arndt, J. E., Somos, M., Navas, S., Farías‐Barahona, D., Rivera, A., Xie, H., & Fernández, A. (2026). The Decline of a Caldera‐Filling Glacier at Volcán Sollipulli, Chile. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 131(6). https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JF008882

Sánchez-Murillo, R., Birkel, C., Yépez, E. A., Oyarzún, R., Poca, M., Londoño, O. M. Q., Muñoz-Villers, L. E., Durán-Quesada, A. M., de Calderón, M. B., Sánchez-Gutiérrez, R., Mosquera, G. M., Villanueva Estrada, R. E., Marshall, G., Moncada, J. B., Ibarra-Alejos, O. J., Farrick, K. K., Quezadas, J. P., Welsh, K., Fernandoy, F., … Miller, J. (2026). Tracer Hydrology Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities Across Latin America and the Caribbean. Hydrological Processes, 40(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.70376

2025

Salgado-Vargas, M., Lillo-Saavedra, M., Sanhueza, F., Cisterna-Roa, V., Somos-Valenzuela, M., & Rivera, D. (2025). Hydrosocial power and territorial transformation: a case study of the Longaví River sub-basin in south-central Chile. Ecology and Society, 30(4), art46. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-16781-300446

Boumahdi, M., Gonzalo-Martin, C., Lillo-Saavedra, M., Somos-Valenzuela, M., & Garcia-Pedrero, A. (2025). Multisource Topographic-Enhanced Cloud Removal for Remote Sensing in Mountainous Landscapes. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 18, 13489–13503. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3572379

Mejías, A., McPhee, J., Mahmoud, H., Farías-Barahona, D., Kinnard, C., MacDonell, S., Montserrat, S., Somos-Valenzuela, M., & Fernandez, A. (2025). Multidecadal estimation of hydrological contribution and glacier mass balance in the semi-arid Andes based on physically based modeling and geodetic mass balance. Frontiers in Earth Science, 13(April), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2025.1517081

Pacheco-Cancino, P. A., Carrillo-López, R. F., Riquelme-Belmar, J. A., & Somos-Valenzuela, M. (2025). Impacts of different intensities of commercial Sphagnum moss extraction on CO2 fluxes in a northern Patagonia peatland. Science of the Total Environment, 964(January). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178566

Lizama, E. **, Somos-Valenzuela, M., Rivera, D., Lillo, M., Morales, B.**, Baraër, M., & Fernández, A. (2025). Role of mountain glaciers in the hydrological dynamics of headwater basins in the Wet Andes. Journal of Hydrology, 649(November 2024), 132413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.132413

2024

Latoja, D., Lillo-Saavedra, M., Gonzalo-Martin, C., Godoy-Faúndez, A., Somos-Valenzuela, M., & Rivera, D. (2024). Decadal Variability of Dry Days in Central Chile. Earth Systems and Environment, 9(2), 1117–1134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-024-00526-6

Lillo-Saavedra, M., Velásquez-Cisterna, P., García-Pedrero, Á., Salgado-Vargas, M., Rivera, D., Cisterna-Roa, V., Somos-Valenzuela, M., Boumahdi, M., & Gonzalo-Martín, C. (2024). Socio-Hydrological Agent-Based Modeling as a Framework for Analyzing Conflicts Within Water User Organizations. Water, 16(22), 3321. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16223321

Hernández-Duarte, A. **, Saavedra, F., González, E., Miranda, A., Francois, J., Somos-Valenzuela, M., & Sibold, J. (2024). Effects of Drought and Fire Severity Interaction on Short-Term Post-Fire Recovery of the Mediterranean Forest of South America. Fire, 7(12), 428. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire7120428

Fernández, A., Manquehual-Cheuque, F.**, & Somos-Valenzuela, M. (2024). Impact of Solar Radiation Management on Andean glacier-wide surface mass balance. Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00807-x

Hou, R., Li, Z., Ye, W., Peng, T., Tian, S., Chen, N., Huang, N., & Somos-Valenzuela, M. (2024). A small landslide induced a large disaster prior to the heavy rainy season in Jinkouhe, Sichuan, China: characteristics, mechanism, and lessons. Landslides. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-024-02213-z

Byers, A. C., Somos-Valenzuela, M., Shugar, D. H., McGrath, D., Chand, M. B., & Avtar, R. (2024). Brief communication: An ice-debris avalanche in the Nupchu Valley, Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, eastern Nepal. The Cryosphere, 18(2), 711–717. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-711-2024

Dominguez, F., R. Rasmussen, C. Liu, K. Ikeda, A. Prein, A. Varble, P. A. Arias, J. Betancourt,M. L. Bettolli, P. Callaghan, L. M. V. Carvalho, C. L. Castro, F. Chen, D. Chug, K. P. Chun, A. Dai, L. Danaila, R. Porfírio da Rocha, E. Nascimento, E. Dougherty, J. Dudhia, T. Eidhammer, Z. Feng, L. Fita, R. Fu, J. Giles, H. Gilmour, K. Halladay, Y. Huang, A. Wong, M. Lagos-Zúñiga, C. Jones, J. Llamocca, M. Llopart, J. A. Martinez, J. C. Martinez, J. R. Minder, M. Morrison, Z. L. Moon, Ye Mu, R. B. Neale, K.M. Núñez Ocasio, S. Pal, E. Potter, G. Poveda, F. Puhales, K. L. Rasmussen, A. Rehbein, R. Rios-Berrios, C. B. Risanto, A. Rosales,L. Scaff, A. Seimon, M. Somos-Valenzuela, Y. Tian, P. Van Oevelen, D. Veloso-Aguila, L. Xue, and T. Schneider (2024). Advancing South American Water and Climate Science Through Multi-Decadal Convection-Permitting Modeling. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0226.1

Pacheco‐Cancino, P. A.**, Carrillo‐López, R. F., Sepulveda‐Jauregui, A., & Somos‐Valenzuela, M. A. (2024). Sphagnum mosses, the impact of disturbances and anthropogenic management actions on their ecological role in CO 2 fluxes generated in peatland ecosystems. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16972

2023

Tian, S., Hu, G., Chen, N., Rahman, M., Ni, H., & Somos-Valenzuela, M. (2023). Effects of Tectonic Setting and Hydraulic Properties on Silent Large-Scale Landslides: A Case Study of the Zhaobishan Landslide, China. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, (0123456789). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-023-00502-0

Morales, B.**, Lizama, E.**, Somos-Valenzuela, M.*, Rivera, D. y Ningshen, C.: Earthquake-induced landslides coupled to fluvial incision in Andean Patagonia: Inferring their effects on landscape at geological time scales, Geomorphology, 434(May), 108731, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108731, 2023.

Chen, N., Tian, S., Wang, F., Shi, P., Liu, L., Xiao, M., Liu, E., Tang, W., Rahman, M. and Somos-Valenzuela, M.: Multi-wing butterfly effects on catastrophic rockslides, Geosci. Front., 14(6), 101627, doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2023.101627, 2023.

Chen N, Liu M, Allen S, Deng M, Khanal NR, Peng T, Tian S, Huggel C, Wu K, Rahman M and Somos-Valenzuela M (2023) Small outbursts into big disasters: Earthquakes exacerbate climate-driven cascade processes of the glacial lakes failure in the Himalayas. Geomorphology, 108539 (doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108539)

2022

Lillo-Saavedra M, Espinoza-Salgado A, García-Pedrero A, Souto C, Holzapfel E, Gonzalo-Martín C, Somos-Valenzuela M and Rivera D (2022) Early Estimation of Tomato Yield by Decision Tree Ensembles. Agriculture 12(10), 1655 (doi:10.3390/agriculture12101655)

Morales B.**, Garcia-pedrero A, Lizama E. **, Lillo-Saavedra M, Gonzalo-martín C, Chen N and Somos-Valenzuela M.* (2022) Patagonian Andes Landslides Inventory: The Deep Learning ’ s Way to Their Automatic Detection. Remote Sens. 14(4622), 1–11 (doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14184622)

Boso À, Ibarra S, Gómez L, Álvarez B, Herranz C, Somos-Valenzuela M. y Garrido J (2022) Unveiling Spatial Patterns of Exposure and Risk Perception to Air Pollution: A Case Study in Chilean Patagonia. Soc. Nat. Resour. 0(0), 1–18 (doi:10.1080/08941920.2022.2113007)

Boso À, Martínez A, Somos-Valenzuela M., Álvarez B, Avedaño C y Hofflinger Á (2022) No Country for Old Men. Assessing Socio-Spatial Relationships Between Air Quality Perceptions and Exposures in Southern Chile. Appl. Spat. Anal. Policy (0123456789) (doi:10.1007/s12061-022-09446-2)

Fernández, A.; Somos-Valenzuela, M. (2022) Revisiting glacier mass-balance sensitivity to surface air temperature using a data-driven regionalization. J. Glaciol., 1–20, doi:10.1017/jog.2022.16.

Lizama E.**, Morales B.**, Somos-Valenzuela M*, Chen N y Liu M (2022) Understanding Landslide Susceptibility in Northern Chilean Patagonia: A Basin-Scale Study Using Machine Learning and Field Data. Remote Sens. 14(4), 907 (doi:10.3390/rs14040907)

Tian S, Hu G, Chen N, Rahman M, Han Z, Somos-Valenzuela M y Maurice J (2022) Extreme climate and tectonic controls on the generation of a large-scale, low-frequency debris flow. Catena 212(December 2021), 106086 (doi:10.1016/j.catena.2022.106086).

Hu G, Huang H, Chen N, Somos-Valenzuela M, Yang Z and He J (2022) Largest scale successful real-time evacuation after the Wenchuan earthquake in China: lessons learned from the Zengda gully giant debris flow disaster. Geomatics, Nat. Hazards Risk 13(1), 19–34 (doi:10.1080/19475705.2021.2000045)

2021

Manquehual-Cheuque F.** and Somos-Valenzuela M* (2021) Climate change refugia for glaciers in Patagonia. Anthropocene 33, 100277 (doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2020.100277)

Wu K, Chen N, Hu G, Wang T, Zhang Y and Somos-Valenzuela M (2021) New insights into the failure mechanism and dynamic process of the Boli landslide, China. Bull. Eng. Geol. Environ. 80 (3), 2131–2148 (doi:10.1007/s10064-020-02085-2)

Morales B.**, Lizama E.**, Somos-Valenzuela M.*, Lillo-Saavedra M, Chen N and Fustos I (2021) A comparative machine learning approach to identify landslide triggering factors in northern Chilean Patagonia. Landslides (February) (doi:10.1007/s10346-021-01675-9)

Fustos-Toribio IJ, Morales-Vargas B.**, Somos-Valenzuela M.*, Moreno-Yaeger P, Muñoz-Ramirez R, Rodriguez Araneda I and Chen N (2021) Debris Flow event on Osorno volcano, Chile, during summer 2017: New interpretations for chain processes in the Southern Andes. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 21, 3015–3029 (doi: 10.5194/nhess-21-3015-2021)

Lillo-Saavedra M, Gavilán V, García-Pedrero A, Gonzalo-Martín C, de la Hoz F, Somos-Valenzuela M. and Rivera D (2021) Ex Post Analysis of Water Supply Demand in an Agricultural Basin by Multi-Source Data Integration. Remote Sens. 13(11) (doi:10.3390/rs13112022)

Legett HD, Jordaan A, Roy AH, Sheppard JJ, Somos‐Valenzuela M., and Staudinger MD (2021) Daily Patterns of River Herring (Alosa spp.) Spawning Migrations: Environmental Drivers and Variation among Coastal Streams in Massachusetts. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc., tafs.10301 (doi:10.1002/tafs.10301)

2020

Somos-Valenzuela M. and Manquehual-Cheuque F.** (2020) Evaluating Multiple WRF Configurations and Forcing over the Northern Patagonian Icecap (NPI) and Baker River Basin. Atmosphere (Basel). 11(8), 815 (doi:10.3390/atmos11080815)

Hu G, Tian S, Chen N, Liu M and Somos-Valenzuela M (2020) An effectiveness evaluation method for debris flow control engineering for cascading hydropower stations along the Jinsha River, China. Eng. Geol. 266(December 2019), 105472 (doi:10.1016/j.enggeo.2019.105472)

Fustos I, Abarca-del-Rio R, Moreno-Yaeger P and Somos-Valenzuela M. (2020) Rainfall-Induced Landslides forecast using local precipitation and global climate indexes. Nat. Hazards (doi:10.1007/s11069-020-03913-0)

Somos-Valenzuela M., Oyarzún-Ulloa J. **, Fustos-Toribio IJ, Garrido-Urzua N and Chen N (2020) The mudflow disaster at Villa Santa Lucía in Chilean Patagonia: understandings and insights derived from numerical simulation and postevent field surveys. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 20(8), 2319–2333 (doi:10.5194/nhess-20-2319-2020)

2019

Hofflinger A, Somos-Valenzuela M.* and Vallejos-Romero A (2019) Response time to flood events using a social vulnerability index (ReTSVI). Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 19(1), 251–267 (doi:10.5194/nhess-19-251-2019)

2018

Lin P, Yang ZL, Gochis DJ, Yu W, Maidment D, Somos-Valenzuela M. and David CH (2018) Implementation of a vector-based river network routing scheme in the community WRF-Hydro modeling framework for flood discharge simulation. Environ. Model. Softw. 107(March 2016), 1–11 (doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.05.018)

Lin P, Rajib MA, Yang Z, Somos-Valenzuela M., Merwade V, Maidment DR, Wang Y and Chen L (2018) Spatiotemporal Evaluation of Simulated Evapotranspiration and Streamflow over Texas Using the WRF-Hydro-RAPID Modeling Framework. JAWRA J. Am. Water Resour. Assoc. 54(1), 40–54 (doi:10.1111/1752-1688.12585)

Salas FR, Somos-Valenzuela M.*, Dugger A, Maidment DR, Gochis DJ, David CH, Yu W, Ding D, Clark EP and Noman N (2018) Towards Real-Time Continental Scale Streamflow Simulation in Continuous and Discrete Space. JAWRA J. Am. Water Resour. Assoc. 54(1), 7–27 (doi:10.1111/1752-1688.12586)

Sirén APK, Somos-Valenzuela M., Callahan C, Kilborn JR, Duclos T, Tragert C and Morelli TL (2018) Looking beyond wildlife: using remote cameras to evaluate accuracy of gridded snow data. Remote Sens. Ecol. Conserv. (doi:10.1002/rse2.85)

Somos-Valenzuela M. and Palmer RN (2018) Use of WRF-hydro over the Northeast of the US to estimate water budget tendencies in small watersheds. Water (Switzerland) 10(12) (doi:10.3390/w10121709)

2016

Somos-Valenzuela M., Chisolm RE, Rivas DS, Portocarrero C and McKinney DC (2016) Modeling a glacial lake outburst flood process chain: the case of Lake Palcacocha and Huaraz, Peru. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 20(6), 2519–2543 (doi:10.5194/hess-20-2519-2016)

2015

Somos-Valenzuela M, McKinney DC, Byers AC, Rounce DR, Portocarrero C y Lamsal D (2015) Assessing downstream flood impacts due to a potential GLOF from Imja Tsho in Nepal. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 19(3), 1401–1412 (doi:10.5194/hess-19-1401-2015)

Rivas DS, Somos-Valenzuela M, Hodges BR y McKinney DC (2015) Predicting outflow induced by moraine failure in glacial lakes: the Lake Palcacocha case from an uncertainty perspective. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 15(6), 1163–1179 (doi:10.5194/nhess-15-1163-2015)

2014

Somos-Valenzuela M, McKinney DC, Rounce DR y Byers AC (2014) Changes in Imja Tsho in the Mount Everest region of Nepal. Cryosphere 8(5), 1661–1671 (doi:10.5194/tc-8-1661-2014)

Byers AC, McKinney DC, Thakali S and Somos-Valenzuela M (2014) Promoting science-based, community-driven approaches to climate change adaptation in glaciated mountain ranges: HiMAP. Geography 99, 143–152 (doi:10.1080/00167487.2014.12094408)

2013

Byers AC, McKinney DC, Somos-Valenzuela M, Watanabe T y Lamsal D (2013) Glacial lakes of the Hinku and Hongu valleys, Makalu Barun National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal. Nat. Hazards 69(1), 115–139 (doi:10.1007/s11069-013-0689-8)

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Submitted

Lizama, E., Reid, B., Cobo, N., Yelderman, J., & Somos-Valenzuela, M. (submitted). The genetic fingerprint of water: emerging applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) in the study of hydrological dynamics. WIREs Water.

Morales, B.**, Somos-Valenzuela, M.*, Lillo, M., Irarrazaval, I., Farias, D., Lizama, E.**, Rivera, D., and Fernández, A. (2024) Glacier geometry limits the propagation of thinning in Patagonian Icefields. Journal of The Cryosphere

Moreno-Meynard, P., Aguayo, R., Astorga, A., Somos-Valenzuela, M., Uribe, L., and Reid, B. (2024) Early detection of anthropogenic impacts on headwater streams in Patagonia through hydrological signatures metrics. Hydrological Sciences Journal.

Cruces-Zarate, A., Manquehual-Cheuque, F., Lillo, M., Fernandez, A., & Somos-Valenzuela, M. (submitted). Fractional snow area assimilation using a hybrid EnKPF filter in WRF-Hydro to improve snow water equivalent estimations. Hydrological Sciences Journal.

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Books and book chapters

Comité Científico COP25 (2019): Criósfera y Cambio Climático: 50 preguntas y respuestas. 131pp (authors: Aldunce P., Andrade C., Anicama J., Arana Espina P., Azocar Sandoval G., Cabrol L., Carrasco J., Casanova-Katny A., Cavieres L., Cereceda-Balic F., Christie D., Cid-Aguero P., Cordero R., Andres Crespo S., Damiani A., Dussaillant-Jones A., Fernández A., Fernandez C., Fernandoy F., Frangopulos M., Fuentes F., Garces-Vargas J., Garcia A., Giesecke R., Godoi Millan MA, Gomez Ocampo I, Gonzalez I, Gonzalez HE., Hofer J., Iriarte JL., Iribarren Anacona P., Lambert F., Leppe M., MacDonell S., Matus F., McPhee J., Mestre Martin M., Navarro Azocar J., Navarro N., Pardo LM., Pizarro G., Poulin E., Shaefer M., Somos M., Ugalde F., Wainstein P.).

Quezada-Hofflinger, Alvaro and Marcelo A. Somos-Valenzuela (2017). Vulnerabilidad social vinculada a los desastres naturales en Chile: Identificando zonas críticas. Book title: Riesgos, Gobernanza y Conflictividad Socioambiental. Universidad de la Frontera editions.

Watanabe, Teiji; Alton C. Byers, Marcelo A. Somos-Valenzuela and Daene C. McKinney (2016). (Chapter 12: The Need for Community Involvement in Glacial Lake Field Research: The Case of Imja Glacial Lake, Khumbu, Nepal Himalaya. Book title: Dynamics of Climate, Glaciers and Vegetation in Himalaya: Contribution towards Future Earth Initiatives. Edited by R.B. Singh, Udo Schickhoff, and Suraj Mal. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-28977-9. http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319289755.

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Conference presentations

Pascal Emanuel Egli, Inés Dussaillant, Iñigo Irarrazaval, Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela, Benjamín Sotomayor González , Elizabet Lizama, Bastián Morales and Joaquín Fernandez. The rapid retreat of two lake-terminating outlet glaciers of the Northern Patagonian Ice Sheet and underestimation of mass loss due to subaqueous ice volume. EGU General Assembly 2024, at Vienna, Austria.

Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela, Bastian Morales, Elizabet Lizama, Mario Lillo, Alfonso Fernandez, and Diego Rivera (2024) Resilient Waters: Exploring Hydrological Response in Evolving Mountain Systems of the Southern Andes. EGU General Assembly 2024, at Vienna, Austria.

Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela, Bastian Morales, Mario Lillo, David Farias, Alfonso Fernandez, Diego Rivera, Gino Cassasa, Ana Huaico, Edilia Jaque, Mark Bryan, Hongjie Xie. Geomorphological control of the upstream propagation of glacier terminal changes in the Patagonian Andes. International Mountain Conference 2022, Innsbruck, Austria.

Alfonso Fernandez, Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela, Francisco Manquehual. Geoingineering: a silver bullet? International Mountain Conference 2022, Innsbruck, Austria.

Alfonso Fernandez, Mario Lillo, Diego Rivera, Marcelo A Somos-Valenzuela, et al. Cold Blooded: Drivers of Climate Change Refugia for Glaciers and Streamflow Responses. International Mountain Conference 2022, Innsbruck, Austria.

Mario Lillo, Pablo Velasquez, Diego Rivera, Marcelo A Somos-Valenzuela, et al. Socio-Hydrological agent-based Modeling to assess future water conflicts at basin scale. International Mountain Conference 2022, Innsbruck, Austria.

Marcelo A Somos-Valenzuela, Trude Eidhammer, Alfonso Fernández, Changhai Liu, Kyoko Ikeda, Roy Rasmussen and David Gochis. GC55B-0429Streamflow simulation using WRF-Hydro/Glacier in the NEF River basin from the Northern Patagonian Ice cap. 2021 AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Elizabet Lizama, Bastian Alexis Morales Vargas, Marcelo A Somos-Valenzuela, Liu Mei and Ningsheng Chen. EP45E-1559 Influence of Bedrock Landslides in the Northern Chilean Patagonia’s Landscape Evolution. 2021 AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Hazem Mahmoud, Alfonso Fernández, Hongjie Xie, Marcelo A Somos-Valenzuela, and James McPhee C15E-0845 Reanalysis of Geodetic Glacier Mass Balance in Central Chile from Satellite Imagery and Aerial Photos. 2021 AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana

Bastian Alexis Morales Vargas, Angel Garcia, Mario Lillo-Saavedra, Marcelo A Somos-Valenzuela, Elizabet Lizama , Liu Mei and Ningsheng Chen. NH35E-0511 Identifying landslides in northern Chilean Patagonia using deep learning classification over Sentinel images. 2021 AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Nataly Manque Roa, Ivo Fustos-Toribio, and Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela. Trigger atmospheric conditions for RIL in the Southern Andes. EGU General Assembly 2020, at Vienna, Austria.

Somos-Valenzuela, M. A. Mass movement tendencies and interaction with climate change in the Northern Chilean Patagonia. EGU General Assembly 2020, at Vienna, Austria.

Somos-Valenzuela, M. A. High Resolution Modeling of a Mountain Glacier in the Chilean Patagonia/Marcelo Somos. EGU General Assembly 2020, at Vienna, Austria.

Fustos, I.J.; Morales Vargas, B. A.; Somos-Valenzuela, M. A.; Moreno-Yaeger, P.; Muñoz, R.; Lizama, E.; Maragaño, G. Climatic variability impact on debris flows generation in the Southern Andes/Marcelo Somos. 2019 AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Somos-Valenzuela, M. A. and Fustos I. WRF parameterization in the Patagonian Northern Icecap (NPI) and Baker River Basin/Marcelo Somos. EGU General Assembly 2019, at Vienna, Austria.

Somos-Valenzuela, M. A. Modelación en alta resolución de superficie terrestre en la cuenca del Río NEF en la Patagonia Chilena, 2018 Sociedad Chilena de la Criosfera conference, Valdivia, Chile

Somos-Valenzuela, M. A. High Resolution Land Surface Modeling over the NEF Basin in the Chilean Patagonia. 2016 AAG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Rafieeinasab A., Gochis D., Dugger A., Pan L., McCreight J., Yu, W. Zhang Y., Yates D., Somos-Valenzuela, M., Salas F. and Maidment D. Diagnostic testing and evaluation of the community WRF-Hydro Modeling System for national streamflow prediction application. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California.

Arctur D., Maidment D., Clark E., Gochis D., Somos-Valenzuela M. A., Salas F. and Nelson J. Advancing the cyberinfrastructure for sustaining high resolution, real-time streamflow, and flood forecasts at a national scale. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California.

Jeffrey Kargel, Gregory Leonard, Mohan B. Chand, Dhananjay Regmi, Umesh Haritashya, Suresh C. Pradhan, Nawaraj Sapkota, Alton Byers, Sharad Joshi, Daene McKinney, Pradeep K. Mool, Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela and Christian Huggel. Glacier Dynamics and Outburst Flood Potential from the Imja and Thulagi Glacier-Lake Systems (Nepal). EGU General Assembly 2015, at Vienna, Austria, Vol. 17, EGU 2015-15554-1, 2015.

McKinney, D. C. and Somos-Valenzuela, M. A. Evaluation of an early warning system for glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) events in Huaraz, Peru. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California

Somos-Valenzuela, M. A., Chisolm, R. E., McKinney D. C., Rivas D. Hazard Map in Huaraz-Peru due to a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood from Palcacocha Lake. 2013 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California.

Somos-Valenzuela M.A., D.C. McKinney, D. Rivas-Gomez. Modeling a Glacier Lake Outburst Flood from Laguna Palcacocha in Peru, International Glacier Forum: Challenges of research at society’s service in the framework of climate change, National Water Authority, July, 1-4, 2013 – Huaraz, Ancash, Peru

Byers, A.C., D.C. McKinney, M.A. Somos-Valenzuela, An Introduction to the High Mountain Glacial Watershed Program: Community-Based Climate Change Adaptation and Glacial Lake Risk Reduction in Nepal and Peru, International Glacier Forum: Challenges of research at society’s service in the framework of climate change, National Water Authority, July, 1-4, 2013 – Huaraz, Ancash, Peru

Byers, Alton C., Daene McKinney and Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela, “Recent Results of the Community-Based Glacial Lake Flood and Risk Reduction Project at Imja Glacial Lake, Sagarmatha (Everest) National Park, Khumbu, Nepal,” 2013 AAG Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California.

Byers, Alton, Daene C. McKinney and Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela, An Introduction to the High Mountain Glacial Watershed Program: Community-Based Climate Change Adaptation and Glacial Lake Risk Reduction in Nepal and Peru. International Glacier Forum: Challenges of research at society’s service in the framework of climate change, National Water Authority, Huaraz, Ancash, Peru, July, 1–4, 2013

Somos-Valenzuela, Marcelo and Daene McKinney, Modeling a Glacier Lake Outburst Flood from Lake Palcacocha, Peru, Proceedings, An Adaptation Partnership Workshop: Andean-Asian Mountains Global Knowledge Exchange on Glaciers, Glacial Lakes, Water & Hazard Management, 3–28 September 2011, Nepal.

Byers, Alton; Daene C. McKinney, Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela and Teiji Watanabe, Glacial Lakes of the Hongu Valley, Makalu-Barun National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal. Proceedings, An Adaptation Partnership Workshop: Andean-Asian Mountains Global Knowledge Exchange on Glaciers, Glacial Lakes, Water & Hazard Management, 3–28 September 2011, Nepal.

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Reports and other publications

Fernández, A., S. MacDonell, Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela, and Á. Gonzáles Reyes (2021). Chile’s glacier protection law needs grounding in sound science, Eos,102, doi: 10.1029/2021EO160569.

Somos-Valenzuela, Marcelo (2020). Dans la Cordillère des Andes, les glaciers fondent, la menace augmente. Ouest France (https://tinyurl.com/muuewnk4).

McKinney, D. C., David Rounce, Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela, and Alton C. Byers, Investigation of the Imja Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Risk and Potential Remediation Measures, Khumbu, Nepal. Summary Report, United States Agency for International Development, Global Climate Change Office, Climate Change Resilient Development Project, Washington, DC, January 31, 2015

Somos-Valenzuela, Marcelo; Rachel Chisolm, Daene McKinney, Denny Rivas. High Mountain Glacial Watershed Program. Inundation Modeling of a Potential Glacial Lake Outburst Flood in Huaraz, Peru. CRWR Online Report 14-01. Center for Research in Water Resources, the University of Texas at Austin, March 2014.

Somos-Valenzuela, Marcelo; Daene C. McKinney, Alton Byers, David Rounce, Cesar Portocarrero, Modeling Mitigation Strategies for Risk Reduction at Imja Lake, Nepal, High Mountain Glacial Watershed Program, CRWR Online Report 13-06, Center for Research in Water Resources, the University of Texas at Austin, August 2013.

Somos-Valenzuela, Marcelo; Daene C. McKinney, Alton Byers, David Rounce, Bathymetric Survey at Imja Lake, Nepal 2012, High Mountain Glacial Watershed Program, CRWR Online Report 12-06, Center for Research in Water Resources, the University of Texas at Austin, January 2013.

Somos-Valenzuela, Marcelo; Daene C. McKinney, Alton Byers, Katelyn Voss, Jeff Moss, James McKinney. Ground Penetrating Radar Survey for Risk Reduction at Imja Lake, Nepal, High Mountain Glacial Watershed Program, August 2012.

McKinney, Daene; Rachel Chisolm, Marcelo Somos-Valenzuela, Alton Byers, Katalyn Voss and Jesus Gomez, Research at Huascaran National Park, June 30 – July 22, 2012, High Mountain Glacial Watershed Program, December 2012.

Somos-Valenzuela, Marcelo, and Daene McKinney. Modeling a Glacier Lake Outburst Flood from Lake Palcacocha, Peru. CRWR Online Report 11-06, Center for Research in Water Resources, the University of Texas at Austin, July 2011.

Somos-Valenzuela, Marcelo. Efecto del Intervalo de Integración de Velocidades de Viento en Estimación de Potencia Eólica. Undergrad final report, University of Concepcion, Chile, January 2007.